News

The pantomime from the Cople Players this year was Snow White and Some Dwarfs. Performed at the Village Hall March 9th – 10th. As we have come to expect it was a brilliant success and enjoyed by all. The proceeds of this year’s performance will go to The Friends of ...Read More

Every morning Anne Marie spends two and a half hours changing daughter Tia’s dressings and popping new blisters that have formed in the night.Tia is two years old and has a severe form of EB. When she was born Anne Marie immediately knew that something was wrong, as she was in ...Read More

Number 74 Bus Route (from the Cople News, Jan 2017) Stagecoach in Bedford have decided to cease operation of bus service 74 from December 2016. Grant Palmer Ltd is stepping in to provide a replacement service, commencing 3 January 2017. The new service will run to the same timetable, although buses after ...Read More

Update 03/11/16: The council have now delivered letters (at more cost to the rate payer) to tell us that they have changed their minds and all of Cople bins will have the same collection day: Monday. Thus the section of Cople that was to have bins collected on Fridays will ...Read More

Spotted recently by Lesley Cole in Water End (October 2016) A white squirrel… White Squirrel in Water End by Lesley Cole Comment by Steve Halton (Senior Countryside Officer for Mid Beds)… It is real. It is an albino common or garden grey squirrel. Albinism is recessive so will always be rare in ...Read More

Ella Jo Street, a novelist, is writing a new, fictional story but based around John Street, a man connected with Cople, who died in 1865. Ella is researching his history and would love to hear from anyone who might be able to throw some historic light on events in this locality around ...Read More

Cople Parish Green Infrastructure Plan You are invited to help create this plan at a Stakeholder Workshop Wednesday 20th July 2016 7.30-9.30pm at Cople Village Hall Green Infrastructure (GI) Plans identify proposed enhancements for an area’s public access, wildlife, heritage and landscape. Strategic, large scale GI Plans exist for Bedfordshire as a whole but little ...Read More

The amazingly successful 2015 Cople Pantomime of Aladdin led by Julia Moore and Miles Tetley has, as always, received some astonishing press reviews. Miles has compiled just a few of these here Plus the nominees and the winner of the Eric Morecambe Award for Oration are here Finally the photographs ...Read More